Michigan voters are being turned away from the polls, or left waiting in seemingly interminable lines, in various metro Detroit locations so far on Election Day.

Rex Nagy, a retired voter in Redford Township, said that his polling place at Pierce Middle School was relying on just one voting machine that he was told had not been tested before Tuesday morning. Everything was at a standstill while around 100 people waited for the machine to get fixed.

From 7:50 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Nagy saw about half the line leave to go to work, he said. Although Redford Township said the issue was resolved in around a half-hour, Nagy noted the line was still backed up.

Meanwhile, at Greenfield Elementary in Oakland County's Southfield Township, resident Sarah Donovan was also told her voting machine was out when she arrived to vote at about 8:30 a.m.

Many of the 20 to 30 others waited, but she went home to call the township. By about 9:15 a.m., she had heard the machine was up and running again.

The machine's batteries ran out after two hours, said the Southfield city clerk Sharon Tischler. It was plugged into a surge protector, but it the protector was set to the "off" switch, which was fixed by a custodian.

"They didn’t look to see whether the on or the off was working," Tischler said.

Tischler initially said she wasn't sure where ballots were placed while the machine was down. By about 2 p.m., though, she said outstanding ballots had been put through the tabulator.

Other machines in Wayne County "froze" this morning and have since been restored, said spokesperson for the clerk's office Lisa Williams-Jackson. Voters at both Riverside Elementary in Dearborn Heights and Addams Elementary School in Redford experienced the issue. Ballots cast during troubleshooting were placed in the auxiliary bin to be counted after polls close tonight.

Troubleshooting for a frozen machine is "actively" occurring in Livonia, she added.

Before Election Day, "numerous test ballots" are fed into tabulators that will be used in precincts, said Fred Woodhams, spokesman for the Michigan Secretary of State. His office is aware of six out of 1,000 tabulators in Wayne County that required a replacement today.

Over in Brownstown, deputy city clerk Amy Whipple confirmed that a voter assistant terminal had crashed from about 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Carlson High School. The machine doesn't count ballots, but some people with disabilities may utilize the machine for assistance when marking down their choices.

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Voters stand in line waiting to vote at Bow Elementary School where multiple precincts are located for the midterm elections in Detroit on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press

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